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The rate for the photon emission accompanying orbital 1S electron capture by the atomic nucleus is recalculated. While a photon can be emitted by the electron or by the nucleus, the use of the length gauge significantly suppresses the…

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We investigate the role of the electromagnetic interaction in the formation and decay of the $X(3872)$. The binding properties of the $X(3872)$ are studied by assuming the molecular nature and considering the $S$-$D$ wave mixing, isospin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-03 Ping Chen , Zhan-Wei Liu , Zi-Le Zhang , Si-Qiang Luo , Fu-Lai Wang , Jun-Zhang Wang , Xiang Liu

We consider the energy spectrum of emitted electrons in $\beta$-decay. Exact Coulomb Dirac wave functions describing the $\beta$-electron in the Coulomb field of the daughter nucleus are used. Further, the improved wave functions which…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 B. Najjari , X. Mougeot , M. -M. Bé , C. Bisch , P. -A. Hervieux , A. Nachab , A. -M. Nourreddine

A simultaneous calculation for the shape evolution and the related spectroscopic properties of the low-lying states, and the $\beta$-decay properties in the even- and odd-mass Ge and As nuclei in the mass $A\approx70-80$ region, within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Kosuke Nomura

I consider the $\gamma W$-box correction to superallowed nuclear $\beta$-decays in the framework of dispersion relations. I address a novel effect of a distortion of the emitted electron energy spectrum by nuclear polarizabilities and show…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Mikhail Gorchtein

A detailed study of $\alpha$-clusters decay is exhibited by incorporating crucial microscopic nuclear structure information into the estimations of half-life and preformation factor. For the first time, using the k-cross validation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 G. Saxena , P. K. Sharma , Prafulla Saxena

The simultaneous emission of two $\alpha$ particles--double-$\alpha$ decay--represents a long-predicted but unobserved mode of nuclear radioactivity. Here we formulate this process as a genuine three-body problem within the hyperspherical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Shulin Tang , Tao Wan , Yibin Qian , Chong Qi , Ramon A. Wyss , Roberto J. Liotta , Dong Bai , Bo Zhou , Zhongzhou Ren

We concentrate here on photon absorption as well as electron and positron scattering upon endohedrals that consist of a fullerenes shell and an inner atom A. The aim is to understand the effect of fullerene electron shell in formation of…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-02-12 M. Ya. Amusia , A. F. Ioffe

The nuclear $\alpha$ decay of heavy nuclei is investigated based on the nuclear energy density functional, which leads to the $\alpha$ potential inside the parent nucleus in terms of the proton and neutron density profiles of the daughter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 Yeunhwan Lim , Yongseok Oh

Electron mass is known to modify at finite temperatures and densities. Weak nuclear processes have a great impact on electron mass which modifies in a statistical background. We demonstrate how the temperature change in electron mass is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 Samina Masood , Jaskeerat Singh

Various mechanisms may contribute to neutrinoless double beta decay in the left-right symmetric model. The interference between these mechanisms also contribute to the overall decay rate. The analysis of the contributions of these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-02 Fahim Ahmed , Mihai Horoi

A theoretical analysis of the partial inclusive B-->X_s gamma decay rate with a cut E_gamma>E_0 on photon energy must deal with short-distance contributions associated with three different mass scales: the hard scale m_b, an intermediate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert

Starting with the basic Lagrangian of the Standard Model, the radiative corrections to the neutron beta-decay are acquired. The electroweak interactions are consistently taken into consideration amenably to the Weinberg-Salam theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 G. G. Bunatian

We investigate the influence of the nuclear deformation on the decay rates of some cluster emission processes. The interaction between the daughter and the cluster is given by a double folding potential including quadrupole and hexadecupole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Misicu , D. Protopopescu

An extensive study of $\alpha$-decay half-lives for various decay chains of isotopes of $Z$ = 120 is performed within the axially deformed relativistic mean-field (RMF) formalism by employing the NL3, NL3$^*$, and DD-ME2 parameter set. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-30 N. Biswal , Nishu Jain , Raj Kumar , A. S. Pradeep , M. Bhuyan

Theoretical estimates of $\alpha$-decay half lives of several nuclei in the decay from element 113 are presented. Calculations in a WKB framework using DDM3Y interaction and experimental Q-values are in good agreement with the experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Roy Chowdhury , D. N. Basu , C. Samanta

Shell structure in the single particle spectrum of deformed harmonic oscillator potentials when a term proportional to $(\vec L)^2$ is added is analyzed for a large particle number. A scaling law which gives a dividing line between regular…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov

The angular correlation of the electrons in the neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu2\beta$) is calculated taking into account the nucleon recoil, the $S$ and $P$-waves for the electrons and the electron mass using a general Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 A. Ali , A. V. Borisov , D. V. Zhuridov

The charge and magnetic form factors of light nuclei, mainly for mass numbers A<=4, provide a sensitive test of our understanding of nuclei. A number of "exact" calculations of the wave functions starting from the nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Ingo Sick

We study the early evolution of the electron fraction (or, alternatively, the neutron-to-proton ratio) in the region above the hot proto-neutron star formed after a supernova explosion. We study the way in which the electron fraction in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. C. McLaughlin , G. M. Fuller , J. R. Wilson